The Oligocene-Miocene Pacific-Australia plate boundary, south of New Zealand: Evolution from oceanic spreading to strike-slip faulting

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 129-139

  Lamarche, Geoffroy ^a   Collot, Jean Yves ^a   Wood, Ray A ^b   Sosson, Marc ^a   Sutherland, Rupert ^b   Delteil, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Macquarie Ridge; Oceanic floors; Plate boundaries; Side scanning methods; Tasman Sea; Transform faults

Indexed keywords

PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE BOUNDARY; RIFTING; SIDESCAN SONAR; STRIKE-SLIP MOTION; TRANSFORM FAULT; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

PACIFIC, MACQUARIE RIDGE; TASMAN SEA;

EID: 0030851853     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00026-5     Document Type: Article

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